Essential Physics Forces and Machines Teacher Resources

This interactive curriculum contains 11 lessons used to teach concepts associated with forces and simple machines.

Each lesson includes a teacher lesson plan, teacher presentation slide set, interactive simulations, student investigation, student assignment, teacher answer keys, and more.

All of the 11 lessons are designed to be delivered in conjunction with the Forces and Machines Engineering Kit (SP-EP-3577) which supplies all of the equipment need to perform the hands-on activities therein.

Lessons include:

• Force and weight
• Hooke’s law and the force from a spring
• Friction
• Force Equilibrium in two dimensions
• Mechanical advantage and the lever
• Torque
• Ropes and pulleys
• Work
• Gears and ratios
• The mechanical advantage of gears
• Designing gear machines